Liverpool man 'caught' after 'acting too slow' in Betis friendly as Slot sweats over Jones injury
Liverpool honcho Arne Port is loath how pensive Curtis Jones’ injury is after he was urged out of the bar’s pre-season well-mannered versus Real Betis.
The 23-year-ratty limped off with a muscular cells crisis 30 minutes relevant into a 1-0 win at the Acrisure Arena in Pittsburgh throughout the early hours of Saturday morning.
Speaking after his initially arcade in penalty of Liverpool, Port said: “I assume it’s as well early to enlighten (how poverty-stricken it is). He possibly could have played on, but I assume possibly you could see he was not at 100 per pence.
“In a well-mannered arcade, with so most days unborn upward in our scenic tour, it was strongest to snatch him off. With any kind of sweet blessing he can repossess from (it) actually speedy, but we have to wait and see.
“We hope he recoups actually speedy so we can see him in the next couple of galleries.”
Jones was reconditioned by 17-year-ratty Trey Nyoni, that had a hand in Dominik Szoboszlai’s 34th-minute victor.
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Port added: “It’s always a pity if he (Jones) possesses to go out after 25 minutes, half an hour. And before that, you could see that he was not flawlessly unshackle.
“It was depressing because he had two actually sweet weeks throughout the mentoring sessions, so I peeked ahead to seeing him in the arcade, but however he had to go out.
“The sweet thing about that was that we lugged somebody (on) that astonished me in the 45 minutes to an hour he played afterwards.
“That was the optimistic thing of Curtis going out for Trey, but of course for Curtis it’s a pity that he couldn’t tinker on.”
Meanwhile, Port had some feedback for young midfielder Stefan Bajcetic, that came off the bench in the 2nd half.
Bajcetic, 19, handled with a calf injury last season and lone made one good aesthetics in the Premier League.
Port will want to see a big pre-season from the Spanish midfielder, that will be hopeless to will upward match health and fitness in floater of 2024/25.
He possesses a long means to search through deliver make service of previously upward to scrape though, and the brand name-contemporary Liverpool head preceptor possesses said he “pretended a a miniscule particle as well sluggish-moving” at minutes in the well-mannered productivity over Real Betis.
“I assume you have to snatch relevant into account with Stefan that he was out for a year, one-and-a-half years virtually,” Port said. “So if a young gamer is out for that long, you have to confer him some time.
“Yet I saw today currently a couple of sweet minutes from him and also a couple of minutes wherein he got entraped because he pretended a miniscule particle as well sluggish-moving. Yet I assume that’s ordinary if you’ve been out for such a long time [and] after that you last bargain rhythm, you last bargain arcade time to thrive also better.
“Yet I assume he unveiled some sweet minutes throughout the half-hour that he played.”
Liverpool confront Toolbox in Philadelphia on Thursday and Manchester United in Columbia, South Carolina next Sunday.
